Well now that it is December (WAIT, IT’S DECEMBER ALREADY?), I thought I would get all us kittens snuggled into the holiday spirit with a lovely, heartwarming and really, really gay Christmas story.
Once upon a time there was a woman who grew up in the Bronx without a single tree on her block. Fast forward some 30-odd years and has spent her career working in public service, then retires with her wife to upstate New York. And a year later a tree from her garden has been selected to be the grandest Christmas tree in all of the land. Best of all, this Christmas story is 100 percent true.
Shirley Figueroa, the woman in question, and her wife Lissette Gutierrez had a tree from their property selected to be this year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree. The 72-foot Norwegian Spruce had been scouted by the Rockefeller folks, who pick a tree from a different place each year).
In having their tree selected they become not only the first same-sex couple, but also the first Latinx-couple to donate a tree for the Rockefeller honor.
Figueroa told The New York Times:
“Just the fact that I have a tree that I can donate when I came from somewhere that had no trees — it’s so surreal.”And about the couple’s historic firsts:
“That’s cool. We’re happy all around. We’re New Yorkers.”Happy holidays, may the season be filled with big gay trees and much merriment.
2 comments:
What a wonderful story , makes be also want a tree :)
My tree is nerdy. It’s made from an old motherboard
But this made me want an actual lesbian tree
Happy December DS
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